FOTD -- November 05, 2002 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: True, it's a few days past Halloween, but today's image has something creepy about it. With its somber dark blue color palette and its eight objects that could be taken as leeches, it might serve as an adequate cover for a paperback horror novel with a title such as "The Leeches that Sucked the World Dry". (Yes, I could be thinking of certain local politicians running for office. It's election day here in Fractal Central country.) Not wanting to name the image after something as unappealing as a dish of leeches, I gave it the more childish name "Creepy- Crawlies". The parent fractal is a grossly bloated Mandeloid rotated 180 degrees and on the verge of turning inside-out. The main period-2 bud, which is on the east side of the large bay has been totally obliterated by the ballooning bay itself. The bay has expanded so far that instead of the period-2 bud being the most prominent, buds with a periodicity around 30 or 40 are most prominent. Today's scene lies in the northern chaos that has accumulated as the whole fractal has expanded. I am sometimes asked how I find these midgets in unfamiliar areas of unfamiliar fractals. I'm not entirely sure how I do it. My attention is often attracted by elements that appear to have two-way symmetry. Then I simply get a feeling that a midget lies deep down at that spot, and when I go look, I am right as often as wrong. The route I took to today's midget can be retraced in reverse by turning off the logmap and outzooming. The trip back out will go faster if the passes is reset to <g> and thumbnail-sized images are calculated. Today's image, which was calculated in the basic default manner, with equal iteration bands on the outside and blank black on the inside, rates a 5. This is an average rating; the image is an average fractal. The 11-minute render time from the parameter file is somewhat excessive, but relief is always at hand at Paul's web site: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> or at Scott's site: <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> where the finished GIF image will soon be posted. The weather on Monday was uneventful here at Fractal Central. The partly cloudy skies, light winds, and temperature of 54F 12C made for a pleasant enough afternoon as the dynamic ones checked and explored the yard, finding nothing out of the ordinary in the process. It's now Tuesday morning and sun is once again illuminating the area. I've got a bit of work to accomplish before I can call it a day, so until tomorrow and the next FOTD, take care, and has anyone considered a fractal chess set? Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Creepy-Crawlies { ; time=0:11:21.35--SF5 on a p200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-92.74890492054568000/+85.5641322949149\ 1000/1519072/1/-70/1.46619012066709353e-005 params=0.6/-1.8/0.6/1.8/0/0 float=y maxiter=1200 inside=0 logmap=198 periodicity=40 colors=000GQIHRHISHJTGKUFLVFMWENXEOYDPYDQYCMYCKYBH\ YBEYDFYEHYFJYGLYHNYIPXJRWKTVLVVMXUNZTOYSPXROVQNTPM\ ROLONKMMKJLJHKIEJHCIGAHGBGICFJCELDGMDINEKPFMQFORGQ\ TGSUHUVIWXIYYJ__Ja`KcaLecLgdMieMkgNmhNniPmjQkkSikT\ glVemWcmXanZ_o_YoaWpbUqdSqeQrfOshMsiKtkIulGunEvoCw\ pAwlEviHveKvbNv_QvWTuTWuPZuMauJduKbsLaqL`oM_mNZlNY\ jOXhOWfPVeQUcQSaRR_SQZSPXTOVTNTUMSVLQVKOWJMWILZGJa\ EHdDFfBDi9Bl89o67q55n68l6Ai6Cg7Ed7Gb7I`7LY8NW8PT8R\ R8TO9VM9YK9_H9aFAcCAeAAg8Ai99g99f99eA9dA9cA8bB8aB8\ `B8_C8ZC8YC7XD7WD7VD7UE7TE6SE6RF6QF6PF6OF6NE7ME8LD\ 9KDAKCBJCCIBDHBDHBEGAFFAGE9HE9ID8JC8KB8KB7LA7M96N8\ 6O85P75Q65Q69S9CTBFUEIVGLXJOYLSZOV_QYaT`bVccYfd_ie\ akaclZemWfnThoQipNkqKmrHnsEptBqu8sv5to8mhBfaE`VHUO\ KNHNHAQA3S45T66U87UA9VCAWEBWGDXIEZKF`MHaOIcQJeSKgU\ MiWNkYOm_QoaRqcSseUugVwiWxkXylZzj`zhbzfdzefzchzajz\ _kzZmzXozVqzTszS7zJ7zJ7zI } frm:MandelbrotMix4 {; Jim Muth a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), d=real(p2), f=imag(p2), g=1/f, h=1/d, j=1/(f-b), z=(-a*b*g*h)^j, k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel): z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c, |z| < l } END 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================